| 1 | | - | By: Workman (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 3668 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015; |
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| 3 | | - | May 19, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Administration; May 24, 2015, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | | - | vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 24, 2015, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 3668 |
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| 10 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 5 | | relating to the definition of peace officer for purposes of |
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| 12 | 6 | | intercepting or collecting information in relation to certain |
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| 13 | 7 | | communications in an investigation conducted by an arson |
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| 14 | 8 | | investigating unit. |
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| 15 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 16 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 1(2), Article 18.21, Code of Criminal |
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| 17 | 11 | | Procedure, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 18 | 12 | | (2) "Authorized peace officer" means: |
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| 19 | 13 | | (A) a sheriff or a sheriff's deputy; |
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| 20 | 14 | | (B) a constable or deputy constable; |
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| 21 | 15 | | (C) a marshal or police officer of an |
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| 22 | 16 | | incorporated city; |
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| 23 | 17 | | (D) a ranger or officer commissioned by the |
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| 24 | 18 | | Public Safety Commission or the director of the Department of |
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| 25 | 19 | | Public Safety; |
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| 26 | 20 | | (E) an investigator of a prosecutor's office; |
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| 27 | 21 | | (F) a law enforcement agent of the Alcoholic |
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| 28 | 22 | | Beverage Commission; |
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| 29 | 23 | | (G) a law enforcement officer commissioned by the |
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| 30 | 24 | | Parks and Wildlife Commission; |
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| 31 | 25 | | (H) an enforcement officer appointed by the |
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| 32 | 26 | | inspector general of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under |
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| 33 | 27 | | Section 493.019, Government Code; [or] |
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| 34 | 28 | | (I) an investigator commissioned by the attorney |
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| 35 | 29 | | general under Section 402.009, Government Code; or |
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| 36 | 30 | | (J) a member of an arson investigating unit |
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| 37 | 31 | | commissioned by a municipality, a county, or the state. |
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| 38 | 32 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 39 | 33 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 40 | 34 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 41 | 35 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 42 | 36 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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| 43 | | - | * * * * * |
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| 37 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 38 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 39 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 3668 was passed by the House on April |
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| 40 | + | 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 1 present, not |
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| 41 | + | voting. |
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| 42 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 43 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 44 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 3668 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 45 | + | 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 46 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 47 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 48 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 49 | + | Date |
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| 50 | + | _____________________ |
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| 51 | + | Governor |
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